A New York-based financial services expert increases reliability and capacity by implementing five ISE storage systems creating the capability to process data as much as four times faster than their previous system.

At X-IO, we think of ourselves as inventors, not integrators. In a market like the storage market, characterized primarily by integration -- the assembly of hardware and software components, many sourced from a third party or based on open source technologies -- our focus on invention, on building storage systems from the ground up to serve particular market segments, is absolutely unique.

X-IO believes that disaster recovery should not be this complex, and has a great deal of expertise and experience in this sector. For this reason, X-IO provides AutoRecover™, an automated disaster recovery tool as a key feature of iglu blaze. The AutoRecover tool automates complex disaster recovery tasks, bringing service-oriented recovery to both physical and virtual server infrastructures. This technical white paper discusses the concerns associated with disaster recovery, and explains in detail how AutoRecover technology addresses a full range of recovery challenges.

Over the past five years, Texas-based institutional agency broker and research provider, Capis, has depended on the high performance levels, redundancy and reliability of X-IO’s ISE storage solution to handle the extremely sensitive data which is mission critical to their operations.

As the 5th largest city in Florida, the City of St. Petersburg produces a vast amount of data and requires resilient, scalable and available storage. Choosing X-IO's ISE products to support its VDI environment, is ideal for data-heavy applications because its cost-effectively provides the high performance necessary for transactions, queries, analytics and reporting.

This solution brief explains that X-IO Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) systems, including X-IO iglu, provide encryption-at-rest using AES 256-bit keys. ISE-based systems allow for encryption of all data with no impact to performance or capacity. By encrypting all data with ISE, compliance is ensured no matter where it is placed. ISE data-at-rest encryption can be used in any situation where security of data storage is a concern.

One of the world's leading live entertainment marketing specialists, UK-based, Dewynters required a complete technology refresh and found the price, performance and capacity of X-IO's ISE storage solution to be unmatched.

X-IO’s high-performing hardware, distinctive five-year warranty, and ability to offer both software-defined and full feature array options allow organizations to both drastically lower their expected storage cost of ownership over time while also delivering improved application performance. In this report, you will learn how X-IO drastically lowers your expected storage cost of ownership over time while also delivering improved application performance and numerous IT efficiencies compared to the industry average.

At the beginning of 2015, Extrinsica turned to X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) 700 hybrid array for a storage solution that could deliver next generation levels of performance
to meet the stringent demands of its customers. Read more to find out why.

Get the most out of your investment in SSD, maintain high, consistent performance levels with sub millisecond response times. ISE All-Flash solutions can achieve 200,000 transactions per second, with less than 1ms of latency, across all of the capacity, guaranteed.

Five years ago, Minnesota-based Gustavus Adolphus College, implemented X-IO’s ISE and Hyper ISE solution systems to keep up with the increasing amounts of data generated by a large staff and student population, which has proven reliable with no downtime and minimal maintenance.

H&M Bay Inc. stores and transports frozen and refrigerated less-than-truckload goods across the US and required a large Microsoft SQL server database to track and monitor every order. X-IO's Hybrid ISE was an ideal fit for database applications because it cost-effectively provides high performance for transactions, queries, analytics, and reporting.

No recent technological trend has been as broad in scope and potential impact than the Internet of Things (IoT). The idea connects devices to each other, to computing resources, and to humans in order to customize our environments, detect threats, optimize operations, and make decisions that humans wouldn’t be able to make on their own.

Read this data sheet to get the detailed specs on X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) 100 Series G3 Archive Storage Arrays which deliver affordable archive storage at high levels of consistent reliability and simplicity.

X-IO’s ISE 200 Series G3 Disk Storage Arrays deliver consistent high performance even at 100% capacity utilization for virtualized, database and cloud hosting environments. The ISE 200 Series delivers 3-4x more performance than any other hard disk based storage array through its unique, patented disk layout technique. It is designed to meet the most stringent performance demands of today’s datacenters, and guaranteed to maintain high performance even at full capacity. The ISE deeply integrates with a wide variety of operating systems and hypervisors, and provides the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership, backed by a standard 5-year warranty.

X-IO’s flash-enabled ISE 700 Series G3 Hybrid Storage Arrays deliver all flash array performance with the capacity of traditional storage for enterprises that demand the reliability and operational simplicity for their virtualization, database or cloud hosting solutions. It is designed to meet the most stringent performance demands of today’s datacenters, and guaranteed to maintain high performance even at full capacity. The ISE deeply integrates with a wide variety of operating systems and hypervisors, and provides the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership, backed by a standard 5-year warranty.

Evaluating the performance of storage systems can be a complicated and difficult process. Workloads can vary widely from one environment to another, making “standardized” tests meaningless when real-world workloads must be accommodated. Performing simple random/sequential, read/write workloads is not enough to emulate the performance demands of real-world environments. Thus, X-IO has developed methods to simulate observed customer workloads for the purpose of performance testing. This paper will detail one of the many tests that are performed at the X-IO world headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. This test is one of a series of ongoing performance tests designed to evaluate new firmware versions for the Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage array.

X-IO’s ISE 800 Series G3 All Flash Arrays deliver the industry’s number one price-performance balance, as rated and audited by the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark and is ideal for OLTP and latency-sensitive application solutions. The ISE is easy to manage and provides the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership, backed by a standard 5-year warranty.

The ISE 800 Series G3 All-Flash Array was designed from the ground up to unlock the performance of flash devices, while integrating with the ISE Management infrastructure. Performance profiling for the ISE 800 Series is critical for X-IO partners and customers, and this paper will provide a brief summary of three performance evaluation tests that were run as part of the ISE 800 series development.

X-IO made their name in enterprise SAN storage by figuring out a way to ensure hard drives and in the case of hybrid configurations, SSDs, never needed to be serviced in the warrantied fiveyear
window. To help achieve this goal, X-IO uses twin DataPacs that are inserted and locked into the fully redundant chassis, delivering a "set it and forget it" style of storage.

This review centers on the ISE 860 G3, with a limited subset of data also collected using the 820 DataPacs in the same chassis.

This white paper provides a primer for the Media Affinity functionality with the ISE G2 and G3 platforms and ISE Manager. This document covers the configuration of a Media Affinity volume and also reviews the setup within ISE Manager. A Media Affinity use case is also included in this white paper and covers a VMware Horizon View environment, leveraging pin to flash (media affinity) volumes for VMware Horizon View replica disks.

Read this data sheet to learn how ISE Mirroring includes options for
-One of the industry’s only active-active replication solutions when using Active-Active Mirroring
-Traditional disaster recovery measures, using active-passive replication with Basic Mirroring
-Volume Migration, enabling movement between different ISE performance tiers and RAID transformation
-Volume Copy, creating clones of production data in order to make test and development easier

This white paper provides greater understanding of how X-IO provides QoS, and best practices of integrating an X-IO storage system into an infrastructure running different applications, including virtualization environments, high performance database systems, E-Mail applications, Virtual Desktop, and cloud computing environments.

Five years ago, JCPS, located in north Dallas, Texas, found an easy-to-use storage system in X-IO’s ISE solution that offered high capacity and top performance to support their 1,000 student population.

For the past five years, X-IO has supported Florida-based Pasco-Hernando State College with the self-healing ISE storage system, offering high performance and capacity to their 14,500 students seeking a high-tech education.

Redknee, Microsoft Corporation, and X-IO Technologies conducted a comprehensive performance and scalability benchmark of Redknee TCB and found that X-IO delivered eight times the volume of subscribers at one third the storage cost.

Redknee, an Ontario-based company, develops real-time convergent billing and customer care software, found that X-IO's Hyper ISE is capable of handling very large SQL Server 2012 workloads and that the Hyper ISE modules provide greatly improved IOPs to support the large workloads.

The X-IO replication option works with X-IO iglu blaze solutions to replicate data over any existing infrastructure. In addition, it can be used for site migration, remote site consolidation for backup, and similar tasks.

Shepherd Chemical, a custom manufacturer of high quality metal salts and organic compounds, recognized the need to increase their performance and reliability five years ago, and implemented X-IO’s ISE storage solution that delivered a fast, resilient, high capacity solution that was easy to use by its entire staff.

These agents work with X-IO iglu blaze to ensure that snapshots are taken with full transactional integrity. Transactional integrity means that the database copy can be brought online without going through any lengthy database rebuild processes or consistency checks, saving hours of valuable recovery time in the event of a disaster.

X-IO synchronous mirroring technology works with X-IO iglu blaze to provide block-level data mirroring. With a few mouse clicks, data can be synchronized to a second storage device independent of the servers involved. There is no need for system-specific host-based tools.

X-IO TimePoint technology works with iglu blaze to enable you to create scheduled and on-demand point-in-time delta snapshot copies of data volumes. TimePoint includes the X-IO TimePtView feature, which creates an accessible, mountable image of any snapshot.

Trans-System, Inc., a flatbed-trucking service company, deployed X-IO’s ISE 230 performance storage arrays to bring their IT infrastructure into the 21st century to support its mission-critical applications with enough capacity for a full storage overhaul.

Truth In Storage speaker and notorious blogger, Stephen Foskett, talks to Mike Wills about his data center challenges and experience as a cloud service provider and how X-IO Technologies has made a positive impact in management and maintenance of his data center hosting and services and some of the vigorous requirements RTW's users have.

A VMware vSphere stretched cluster on X-IO Technologies ISE storage with Active-Active Mirroring provides a solution for maximizing availability and uptime by clustering datacenters at metro distances apart. This solution provides the absolute highest levels of continuous availability over distance for today’s enterprise storage and cloud environments. This solution is implemented in environments where disaster/downtime avoidance is a requirement.

This paper discusses how replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. However, as IT and business managers know, replicating data can quickly increase bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used for replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application performance. However, in most cases, WAN optimization requires the purchase and installation of expensive hardware. X-IO solutions include built-in advanced data replication technology that is far more WAN-efficient than other types of solutions, providing significant savings in bandwidth, storage capacity, and costs.

X-IO supports hardware either as a warranty at the time of purchase or as a maintenance extension after the warranty period expires. Each ISE comes with a five-year hardware warranty at no additional charge. For customers in the United States, the warranty period starts the day the unit is shipped, and for customers outside the United States, it starts sixty (60) days after the day the unit is shipped.

This white paper examines the need for high-performance, flash-based storage systems that also deliver high availability, simplicity, and affordability. A comparison of common architectural approaches is presented with an explanation of how X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) and iglu storage exceed other architectures to deliver industry-leading 100% performance even at 100% capacity, with unrivaled availability and reliability, backed by a standard 5-year warranty.

This white paper provides a primer for the X-Pod for VDI converged infrastructure solution, powered by X-IO storage. X-Pod is a reference architecture designed to deliver a repeatable, high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure. It utilizes an industry-leading Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 environment, hosted on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade Servers, with storage housed on a single, high-performance, X-IO ISE 740 Hybrid Storage Array.
The environment described herein has been extensively tested by X-IO. This document is intended to provide insight into the components, the architecture, and the performance required to meet the demands of a 350 and 500 seat virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment.

This white paper provides a primer for the X-Pod for VDI converged infrastructure solution, powered by X-IO storage. X-Pod is a reference architecture designed to deliver a repeatable, high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure. It utilizes an industry-leading VMware Horizon View 5.3.1 environment, hosted on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade Servers, with storage housed on a single, high-performance, X-IO ISE 740 Hybrid Storage Array.
The environment described herein has been extensively tested by X-IO and verified by VMware. This document is intended to provide insight into the components, the architecture, and the performance required to meet the demands of a 500, 1000, and 1500 seat virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment.